GNU bug report logs - #18558
24.4.50; Debugger slow with long strings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 29463

Found in versions 24.4.50, 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 18558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Cc: 18558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18558: 24.4.50; Debugger slow with long strings
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:15:44 +0100

On Fri, Feb 19 2016, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> I would guess that the problem is not in long string /per se/, but with
> lon lines in the *Backtrace* buffer, i.e. probably something connected
> with the display engine.  I guess this bug should either be closed or
> merged with some other one (one of the other ones, perhaps) dealing with
> efficiency problems with long lines.

It seems very unlikely that the general "long-lines" problem of the
display engine will be fixed.  In contrast, the debugger could be
changed to not generate long lines, e.g. by truncating long string like
it does for long/cyclic lists.

Helmut
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